Installation of 2003 DOS Mode???

[Guest]

I am currently studying to become a Network admin. I wanted to learn server 2003 and I wanted some hands on. I downloaded the trial edition. I am trying to install it to a formated clean hard drive. I have tried both with and without a partition. Here is my problem, and its a little embarrasing, when I boot up with the floppy and run setup from the cd rom, it says that I cannot run that command in DOS mode. I have tried booting directly from the CD Rom but it only loads the system file and does not load the CD-rom driver. What am I missing here. Please help.

 

[Dave Patrick]

You didn't mention the drive controller (possibly SCSI, or ultra DMA, or
ATA100, or raid, or serial ATA), but you may need to boot the Windows 2003
CD-Rom and *F6* very early and very important (at setup is inspecting your
system) in the setup to prevent drive controller detection, and select S to
specify additional drivers. Then later you'll be prompted to insert the
manufacturer supplied Windows 2003 driver for your drive's controller in
drive "A"

If you wait and then S to specify additional drivers, then it may be too
late as Windows 2003 Setup at this point may have already assigned the
resources your drive's controller is wanting to use.

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|I am currently studying to become a Network admin. I wanted to learn
server 2003 and I wanted some hands on. I downloaded the trial edition. I
am trying to install it to a formated clean hard drive. I have tried both
with and without a partition. Here is my problem, and its a little
embarrasing, when I boot up with the floppy and run setup from the cd rom,
it says that I cannot run that command in DOS mode. I have tried booting
directly from the CD Rom but it only loads the system file and does not load
the CD-rom driver. What am I missing here. Please help.

 

[George Hester]

The other way of doing this is to take the Operating System that you downloaded and extract it using Isobuster. Then in Windows 2000 you go ahead and start the install like you were going to upgrade. You can if you want. But if you want it to install somewhere else then you put that in when you are queried if this is an update or a new install. You say new install and check that you want to be asked which partition to install on when the machine reboots. I always point it to where I am gioing to install in the GUI though.